The Beautiful: Collected Poems Book

	The Beautiful	13
	McDonald's	17
	August-September	20
	Orca	24
	X-Girl	29
	Sell-Out	31
	My Pain	32
	The Cruelty of Strangers	33
	Unsmoking	36
	Biter	39
	Please	41
	Motorcycle Funeral Escort	43
	No Girls	45
	Dive	46
	Ask Me About My Grandkids	47
	Oh God	49
	If You Leave A Woman Flowers You'll Probably Scare Her Away	50
	1/1/94	53
	Letter to a Masochist	54
	Suicide Poem	55
	When I Love My Father	56
	Nanabelly	58
	Advice for the Lovelorn	59
	Trying to Move the Mystery Muscle	61
	How to Reprogram Your Sexuality	63
	All These Wounded Women	65
	For Zanne For Zanne For Zanne	67
	We Could Be Soulmates	69
	Three Male Abortion Doctors	71
	Dragging the Recycling Out of the Whorehouse	74
	Beach Poem	76
	I Am the Light	77
	A Brief Night Out in Tucson	79
	Ode to Chelsea	81
	And I Still Can't Drive, Really	83
	Just What the World Needs	85
	St. Candace of the Incest Daughters	86
	Happy	88
	My Life in 11 Parts	93
	My Mother Getting Divorced	105
	Johns Who Don't Pay are Rapists	107
	Dream of an Ex-Girlfriend	109
	Kathleen	110
	The Enormity of a Beaten Woman's Blood	112
	How I Lost My Poetry	115
	Crabs are No Big Deal	117
	Peter and Me	119
	How I Lived My Life in Tuscon	121
	What I Know	123
	Bus Story	125
	Right Where You Should Be	126
	What Happened	128
	Dysfunctional Love Poem for Ali	129
	The Love for a Mother is a Tough, Tough Love	133
	For My Nana	136
	Go Kiss Go	138
	This Doesn't Happen Often	139
	Hell is a State School	141
	This is About Karma	144
	Fake Duck/Bad Trip	146
	We are Girls	149
	I Used to Be Straight	152
	Trick Poem #2	154
	My Heart	157
	On Learning My Lover was a Whore or It's All Her Fault	159
	That Look	162
	Five Reasons Why I May Die of Cancer	164
	Emotional Masochism or New Age Message from Beyond?	166
	People I've Lost	167
	Another Day at Work	168
	Mr. Buzzle	169
	Lovesad	170
	Gazpacho	171
	Sushi	173
	Of Course	175
	A Good Thing to Say	179
	I'm Getting Really Sick of Writing Poems Like This	180
	Percentages	182
	Laurie	186
	Nature Video	189
	The City at the End of the World	192
	Impossible	194
	The Armageddon Dance	197
	Pigeons	200
	My Place in the World	203
	Last Hope	205
	The Biggest Mistake I Made All Year	207
	Our Lady of Ridiculous Wishes	209
	Nice Try	211
	The Big One's Not Coming	214
	What I Mean by American	216
	Pickup Trucks	218
	Cops	220
	Pastry Tragedy	224